しかし、彼は違った大きさや色の木製の留めくぎを見たことはあるかもしれない。

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English Translation

He might, however, have seen a wooden peg of a different size or color.

Furigana

しかし、彼(かれ)は違(ちが)った大(おお)きさや色(いろ)の木製(もくせい)の留(と)めくぎを見(み)たことはあるかもしれない。

Romanji

Shikashi, kare wa chigatta ōkisa ya iro no mokusei no tome kugi o mita koto wa aru kamo shirenai.

Words

然し (しかし)

however; but

彼 (かれ)

he; him; his; boyfriend

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

違う (たがう)

to differ; to be different; to run counter to; to change (into something out of the ordinary)

大きい (おおきい)

big; large; great; loud

や (や)

such things as (non-exhaustive list related to a specific time and place); and ... and; the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; as soon as; punctuational exclamation in haiku, renga, etc.; interjection expressing surprise; hi; plain copula; yes; what?; indicates a question

色 (いろ)

colour; color; complexion; appearance; look; love; lust; sensuality; love affair; lover; kind; type; variety

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

木製 (もくせい)

wooden; made of wood

留め (とめ)

(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle

供犠 (くぎ)

sacrifice; sacrificial animal

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

見る (みる)

to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe; to look over; to look on; to assess; to examine; to judge; to look after; to keep an eye on; to take care of; to view (e.g. flowers, movie); to try; to try out; to see that...; to find that...

事 (こと、こん)

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

有る (ある)

to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about

かも (かも)

may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly

知れる (しれる)

to become known; to come to light; to be discovered; to be known; to be understood; to obviously not amount to much; to seem trivial; to be evident; to be obvious; to go without saying; to be very intense (worry, hope, etc.); to be extremely severe